Eating out in Cornwall
Until recently if you asked anyone to name the speciality foods produced in Cornwall, they would probably nominate the Cornish pasty or clotted cream - how things have changed since Rick Stein began promoting himself and his local food heroes on TV, altering our eating habits and fuelling us with a desire to want to savour fresh, local food.
Cornwall's mainstay industries have long been fishing, farming and tourism and with the recent decline in the profitability of the first two and the rise of our tourist industry, producers have had to specialise and supply high quality products to survive. Our farmers here in the south west produce some of the finest quality vegetables and meat and the trend is to sell it in local farmers' markets and farm shops. Often enterprising families will go on to produce fabulous finished products such as Roskilly's ice cream made with milk from their herd of Jersey cows, local dairy farmer Bill Clark and his award winning clotted cream, Sally Lugg's herd of Primrose Porkers at Redruth and Lynher valley's nettle coated Yarg cheese to name but a few. These and a whole host of other local foods can be found by visiting the Taste of the West's website at www.tasteofthewest.co.uk or more at www.foodfromcornwall.co.uk including details of local farmers markets. We have award winning Lobbs' Farm Shop in the grounds of Lost Gardens of Heligan, approximately 10 minutes drive from here, find them on www.lobbsfarmshop.com.
Most visitors yearn to eat freshly caught fish when they are here and it is possible to buy locally at Fowey fish www.foweyfish.com or if you are in port when the fish arrives at Looe or Mevagissey, you can bargain with the fishermen and buy it on the quay!
Cornwall is rapidly becoming one of the gastronomic centres of the country. Besides Rick Stein's Seafood restaurant in Padstow, Jamie Oliver has just set up a branch of his 'Fifteen' restaurants in Watergate Bay near Newquay , Nathan Outlaw’s restaurant at St Enodoc was featured on TV recently – both he and Jean Shrimpton's Abbey restaurant near Penzance hold one of the few Michelin stars here in the county. Find more about fine places to eat on www.eatoutcornwall.com www.cornishaccreditedrestaurants.co.uk.
We have many local pubs and restaurants we recommend in this area and details of them all will be found in our cottage guide book when you arrive. Our best local restaurants are the School House at Pentewan, Revival at Charlestown, the Rising Sun at Portmellon, plus the fabulous Sam's bistro at Fowey and now Sam’s on the Beach at Polkerris.
If you don’t feel like venturing out from your holiday cottage visit our Catering pages for details of our frozen meals and private chef service here at Bosinver.
Useful Links
Cornwall Food Finder - Cornish food and drink trade directory
Food From Cornwall - The one stop website on where to buy Cornish food and drink
British Food Fortnight
Oughs - Cornish food and hampers at one of Cornwall 's oldest fine food shops
Food in Cornwall - Cornish pubs, hotels and restaurants promoting local food
Eat Out Cornwall - Eating out in Cornwall
Regional Food & Drink - Food from Britain
Farmers Market - Information about Cornish farmers markets
Big Barn - Food in your local area
